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Based on its recent analysis of the imaging informatics market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Agfa HealthCare with the 2010 North American Frost & Sullivan Product Leadership of the Year Award.

Agfa HealthCare 's IMPAX Data Center medical imaging repository empowers the IT, clinical, and business strategies of its users. This ability assumes greater significance in a scenario where healthcare information is becoming increasingly digitized.

There is considerable need for IT solutions that optimize the access to data throughout the enterprise, while simultaneously enabling the centralization of these data and IT management functions. IMPAX Data Center meets this demand by leveraging Agfa 's longstanding expertise in the imaging informatics industry.

"The IMPAX Data Center platform incorporates the newest IT technology, supports the latest industry standards for HIT management, integration and interoperability, and builds on the most recent paradigms for enhancing enterprise connectivity and developing the EHR," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Nadim Daher.  "The recent enhancements brought to the IMPAX Data Center solution, as part of a Agfa 's continuous research and development efforts, are well aligned with the evolving requirements of the marketplace."

"In this rapidly evolving landscape, healthcare providers are realizing that an effective way to develop the EHR is to create it from the ground-up by consolidating the existing IT infrastructure," notes Daher. "In this context, with IMPAX Data Center, Agfa is demonstrating that it is ahead of the curve in its ability to interlace its medical imaging repository with a clinical repository and document management system, and turn these three core information management systems into a solid, future-proof foundation for an EHR that provides enterprise-wide access to a comprehensive, longitudinal patient record."

IMPAX Data Center features Agfa 's leading-edge XERO technology, which allows fast, secure access to all images and reports, eliminating the need to install client software. This technology works on both low and high bandwidth networks, inside or outside the hospital, on any PC or Mac browser, thereby reducing desktop maintenance costs, while providing secure, efficient, and ubiquitous access to medical images and reports. It supports a wide range of data formats used across various image-using and image-producing departments, and offers flexible deployment models as an owned or a hosted solution.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated excellence in new products and technologies within its industry. The recipient company has shown innovation by launching a broad line of emerging products and technologies.

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